Cutting-tool



.,A.'1ANSS 0N. CUTTING TooL. l APPLICATION FILED AUG.29,' 1919.

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ARVID JANSSON, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIG-NOR TO MARF MACHINE & DIECASTING CO., INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

` CUTTING-Toor..

specification of igejtters-'at'ent. Patented Jan. 18, 1921.

Application filed August 29,' 1919. Serial Noi 320,575.

1./ 'o all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, Anvm JANssoN, a citizen of the United StatesofAmerica, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cutting-Tools, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description. A

This invention relatesto improvements in cutting tools, one" of theobjects being to provide a tool by which means curved surfaces of smallradius can be produced. j

The chief object of my invention is to obviate the necessity j offorming curved surfaces by hand. thereby reducing the cost of producingarticles requiring such surfaces, such as dies employed to producediecastings. To form curved surfaces, especially when said surfaces areVlocated within a slot, hand labor is required owing to the fact that amilling cutter small enough to cut the surface cannot be inserted withinthe slot, and so far as I am aware, I am the first to produce a toolthat will accomplish the result. My improved tool is arranged forattachment to a milling machine or any other machine having a rotatablespindle adapted to operate same.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved tool, a portion of arotatable spindle and support therefor, being also illustrated;

Fig. 2 'is an end view thereof,looking from the right in Fig. 1; Y

Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the cutter operating device;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view thereof, the section beingtaken on a line lf-4 in Fig. 3; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged top plan view of the head-piece and slidable toolcarrying bar.

My improved cutting tool can either be arranged for attachment to amilling machine, for instance, or incorporated in a machine by itself,preferably the device will be arranged as an attachment to a millingmachine.

As herein arranged, the tool consists of a hanger or bracket 6 providedwith a bore or opening 7 to receive the end of the spindle 8 of amilling machine, for instance, a carrier for the spindle being indicatedby 9. I have not illustrated any particular forni of milling machine,but it will be 'understood that a portion of a rotatable spindle isindicated by 8 and a portion of a machine frame by 9. The bracket 6 willbe secured to the frame 9 by bolts 10 passing through slots 11 in, orderthat the frame 6 can be angularly adjustedto suit the cutter 12. Thecutter 12 is carried by" bar held by the slidable bar 13 by a set screw18. To accomplish the desired result, the bar 13 will have impartedthereto a cornbined oscillatory and vertical movement to 4cause the tool12 to engage the work, indicated by 19, and to be drawn upwardly, incontact with the work in a circular path, thereby producing the desiredcurved sur-- face or fillet. Curved surfaces or fillets of various radiiwill be produced by varying `the radius of the path of movement of thecutter. The action of the cutter will be a scooping or scraping action,but nevertheless a cutting action. To impart to the tool the abovementioned movement, I provide a crank member 20, consisting of a shankmember 21, a head 22 and an adjustable crankpin 23, which engages bar13. The shank member 21 will be engaged by the chuck 24, carried by thespindle 8 of the machine. As can be seen in Fig. 4, the head 22 carriesa T slot 25 engaged by a slidable block 26, which carries the crankpin23. In combination with said crank member, I employ, in this instance, awasher or separator 27, carrying a cylindrical projection 28, whichrotatably engages the arm 13. The crank pin 23 passes loosely throughthe separator and its extension and is engaged by a nut 29 at its outerend, said nut bearing against a washer 30,which bears against the outerend of the projection 28 slightly more than against bar 13, therebypermitting of the rotation of the projection 28 within the bar duringthe operation of the tool. The nut 29 serves to bind the block 2G,separator 27 and head 22 together, to maintain said block in adjustedpositions. The radius of the path of the cutter can be varied byadjusting the block 26 toward or away from the axis of head 22 and shank21. To accurately position the block 26 for a given radius, I mayprovide a micrometer device indicated by 31 and 32, to shift the blockin its slot in the head 22. During the operation of the crank member,the bar 13 will have imparted thereto a combined vertical andoscillatory motion, which will impart to the tool a rotary motion orcause same to describe a circular path proportionate to they distance ofthe block 26 from the axis of the shank 21. During its circularmovement, the tool or critter 12 will cut a iillet, whose radius isequal to the distance between the axis of shank 21 and axis of crank pin23, such a fillet being indicated by 31n in Fig. 2. It will be plainlyevident from an inspection of Fig. 1, that the -cutter 12 will cut acircular surface of small 1. In combination with a rotatable spindle, ahead operated thereby, a block slidable in said head, means to adjustsaid block toward or away from the axis of said head,

a pin carried by said block a carrier operatedby said pin, and a cutter'carried by said carrier.

2. In a cutting tool, an oscillatory slidably supported carrier, acutter carried thereby, and a crank mechanism to simultaneouslyoscillate and impart a slidingr movement to the carrier to cause thecutter to travel in a circular path. 3. In a cutting tool, a bracket, ahead-block carried thereby arranged for oscillatory motion, a barslidably supported by said headblock arranged for movement transverselyof the axis of said head block, a rotatable head adjacent the free endof said bar, a crank-pin carried by the head engaging said bar wherebysaid bar will have imparted thereto a combined oscillatory and verticalmovement when said head is rotated, and a cutter located at the free endof said bar.

4. In a cutting tool bracket, a head block carried thereby arranged foroscillatory motion, a bar slidably supported by said head block arrangedfor movement transversely of the axis of said head block, a rotatablehead adjacent the free end of said bar, a block carried by said headmovable transversely of the axis of the head, a micrometer device toadjust said block with respect to the axis of said head, and a cutterlocated at the free end of said bar.

Signed at New York city, N. Y., this 2nd day of August 1919.

ARVID JANSSON.

Witnesses:

EDWARD A. JARVIN, CHARLES D. SPRUNG.

